Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. January 21, 2022. Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties.

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Strategy Classroom Elementary Assessment 246

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. Dell has deals for listeners of the show and readers of the Cool Cat Teacher blog going live right now through November 27th of 2022. Learn about this method of curriculum development and teaching and see if it is right for you. Jon Bergmann - Bio as Submitted.

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Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 484

Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. Third graders in 2022 are the furthest behind in reading, as depicted by the bar on the far left.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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Professional Learning Elementary Accessibility Differentiated Instruction 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sample question on the math section of the 2022 PISA exam. For more PISA questions, there are PISA practice questions on Khan Academy and publicly released questions from the 2022 test. Source: OECD PISA 2022. The tests were administered in 2022.) Source: OECD PISA 2022. Source: OECD PISA 2022.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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Trends Report Assessment Elementary 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Once I saw how they possessed both drive and tenacity, they participated in a virtual robotics competition–the Fall 2022 CoderZ League Robotics Competition. Consequently, on a recent benchmark assessment, students made significant growth within that domain, which is typically seen at the end of the school year after that unit is taught.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). After the pandemic in 2022, only 27 percent were well prepared.

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STEM Data Report Comparison 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Secondary Training Elementary Report 145

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading and more than 3 million students who completed the i-Ready Diagnostic for Mathematics in Grades K–7 in 2021–2022 and in Grades 1–8 in 2022–2023. Stretch Growth proved particularly impactful in elementary years (i.e.,

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Learning Elementary Data Meeting 129

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood. It had an A rating from the state in 2022. Duncan Klussmann agreed with Yarborough’s assessment. The library at Almeda Elementary after bookshelves were removed.

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Libraries Elementary System Meeting 218

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first report, The State of Student Learning in 2022 , analyzes reading and mathematics data gathered from nearly two million Grades 1–8 students during the 2021–2022 school year via the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool. KEY FINDINGS.

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Trends Elementary Data Comparison 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

But the latest analyses from three assessment companies paint a grim picture of where U.S. At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. children are academically and that merits coverage.

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Company Analysis Assessment Report 145

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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Technology Assessment Company EdTech 181

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. For the 2022-23 school year, 84 percent of our students met usage expectations on Core5 and 74 percent of all students advanced at least one grade level of material.

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Data Classroom Elementary Outcomes 118

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990.

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Classroom Academic Standards Assessment Elementary 178

The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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Assessment Secondary Strategy Report 90

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The White House Council of Economic Advisors found that chronic absenteeism significantly contributed to drops in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, accounting for 16 to 27 percent of NAEP score declines in math and 36–45 percent in reading, notes Jeremy Glauser , founder and CEO of eLuma. percent of 12th graders.

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Industry Strategy Elementary Assessment 128

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program. “In During the 2022-2023 school year, CCSD implemented a research study on Exact Path, with more than 20,000 students spanning kindergarten through grade 10, to assess and improve math and reading scores. NWEA MAP points on average.

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Edmentum Assessment Professional Learning EdTech 126

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. But many kids — and an increasing number over the last four years — lack access to the resources and experiences that introduce those skills to them before they start elementary school.

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Elementary Accessibility Examples Secondary 175

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nearly six out of 10 course grades are inaccurate, according to a new study of grades that teachers gave to 22,000 middle and high school students in 2022 and 2023. On the flip side, more than 1,000 students received grades that were two letter grades lower than their assessment score. However, solutions aren’t quick or easy.

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Study Analysis Course Assessment 145

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2024

Student Growth in the Post-COVID Era offers an assessment of student performance, tracking growth year over year and comparing it to historical trends. Students who were well below grade level in both reading and mathematics at the beginning of the 2021–2022 school year are not keeping pace with pre-pandemic growth trends.

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Trends Assessment Data Outcomes 111

EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

21st, 2022). Bergmann, 2022). The big idea of mastery learning is that at the end of a unit/chapter, students take a summative assessment and if they pass, they move on to the next unit. If they don’t, they receive remediation and then continue to work on mastering the content until they pass the summative assessment.

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Handbook Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Assessment 118

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2022

At one elementary school in rural Appalachia, most of the children are white and poor; 90 percent qualify for free or reduced priced lunch. Despite the training that teachers received on assessing students by answering a list of 37 questions, some teachers were inclined to rate their students more generously than others.

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Assessment Groups Study Report 138

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today announced that it won Best Accessibility Solution in the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards program presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education. ITASCA, Ill. in addition to a number of submissions from around the world.

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Accessibility Assessment Industry Outcomes 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

The highly contagious Omicron variant prompted Chicago, Detroit and several more of nation’s largest school districts to shut down in-person school in early January 2022. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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Study Assessment Data Elementary 137

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Research-based DESSA assessments provide partners with an SEL foundation rooted in the promotion of assets, not deficits. Codelicious introduced attendees to its full-year computer science curriculum for K-12.

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EdTech Robotics Assessment STEM 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

In a 2022 national survey , 70 percent of school districts said they had launched new summer programs or expanded existing ones. A separate study in Tennessee, also looking back at the summer of 2022, found the same tiny learning gains in math but none in reading. That’s because it’s hard to convince families to show up.

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Learning Elementary Study Robotics 94

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Another year has passed, and we couldn't be prouder of MIND's accomplishments in the 2021-2022 school year. While student math proficiency reached an unprecedented nationwide low on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), students using ST Math persevered with JiJi and remained creative and powerful problem solvers.

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Report Learning Elementary System 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Statewide, 30 percent of students scored proficient in math. 31, 2023, in Piedmont, Ala.

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Data Elementary Groups Report 135

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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Edmentum Elementary Industry eBook 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The 2022 experiment took place in four second grade classrooms in the Netherlands. Source: Figure 1 of “The effect of retrieval practice on fluently retrieving multiplication facts in an authentic elementary school setting,” (2023) Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology. Retrieval practice can seem counterintuitive.

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Elementary Study Report Groups 145

Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Bergmann, 2022). The big idea of mastery learning is that at the end of a unit/chapter, students take a summative assessment and if they pass, they move on to the next unit. If they don’t, they receive remediation and then continue to work on mastering the content until they pass the summative assessment.

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Handbook Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Assessment 122

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Close up of an illustration from the cover of a May 2022 study on high school grade inflation by ACT, a maker of college admissions tests. The ACT study found that high school grades rose between 2010 and 2022 while scores on the ACT fell. Credit: ACT Inc. As grades rose, achievement fell. Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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Analysis Study Report Assessment 145

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – Renaissance , the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is honored to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the community reading initiative Read on myON , a first-of-its-kind partnership between Renaissance and Hillsborough County Public Schools. Bloomington, Minn. About Renaissance.

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Accessibility Differentiated Instruction Elementary Assessment 98